. British barrows: a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England. Mounds -- England; Craniology -- Great Britain; England -- Antiquities. PARISH OF GOODMANHAM, 317 part of the barrow were found several bones of a large and old ox and some of a young one, and the frontal bone of a young ruminant, which has more the appearance of sheep than of goat. CVII. The next barrow was 80ft. in diameter^, Sift, high, and made entirely of earth. At the centre was a shallow grave, 6 ft. in diameter, and sunk to a depth of 10 in. through the surface-soil on to the chalk rock. Tw
. British barrows: a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England. Mounds -- England; Craniology -- Great Britain; England -- Antiquities. PARISH OF GOODMANHAM, 317 part of the barrow were found several bones of a large and old ox and some of a young one, and the frontal bone of a young ruminant, which has more the appearance of sheep than of goat. CVII. The next barrow was 80ft. in diameter^, Sift, high, and made entirely of earth. At the centre was a shallow grave, 6 ft. in diameter, and sunk to a depth of 10 in. through the surface-soil on to the chalk rock. Two feet below the surface of the barrow, and over the top of the grave, was a very remarkable and diminutive vessel of pottery, quite plain, 1 in. high, | in. wide at the mouth, the same at the bottom, and swelling a little at the middle [fig. 135].. Fig. 135. i. It is vain to conjecture to what use so very minute a vessel could have ever been put; it was not found in connection with an interment, for though above the grave it was not even within its limits, much less in association with the body found therein. It was simply placed amongst the material of the barrow as any casual piece of pottery or flint chipping might have been, and whether it was deposited there without any nearer relation to a burial than such articles may be supposed to have had it is quite impossible to say \ At the bottom of the grave was the body of a large and strongly-built man, laid on the left side, with the head to ; the hands were too much decayed to admit of their position being ascer- tained. Amongst the material of the barrow were three pieces of plain dark-coloured pottery and some bones of a young child, also of red-deer and of a fox. C VIII. Closely adjoining the last was a barrow 48 ft. in diameter and 1 ft. high. It had apparently been disturbed on a previous 1 In the York Museum is a vessel almost the counterpart of this. It was found iu a barrow at Hutton Cranswick, in the East Ridin
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